UPDATE, BELOW — SUSPECT NAMED.The Iron County Sheriff’s Department in southern Utah says it just wants to talk to the man in this security camera image. At least that’s the official word. More official words include “armed and dangerous,” ominous adjectives that are ascribed to an un-named suspect wanted in conjunction with break-ins in around [...]
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This isn’t pretty. But it is fact. The annals of exploration are full of gruesome tales of cannibalism. In naval circles it was well known that if a ship ran aground on a deserted island, the custom of drawing lots and killing and eating each other one by one was the norm. A 1536 English [...]
WHEN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA SURFER ERIC TARANTINO WAS ATTACKED BY A SHARK THIS PAST FALL the 27-year-old had just paddled out into the surf in the pre-dawn light. When the great white struck, it knocked Tarantino cold, and he awoke upside down and in the jaws of the shark. What happened next is somewhat of a [...]
IF THE IDEA OF SURFING THROUGH BLOWING SNOW AND SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES in Alaska sounds just a mite too burly for you, consider Scott Jones’ day last week, when a rip tied off Kodiak took him for a ride he couldn’t resist…to a remote headland where he was unable to paddle out from, because gale force [...]
On the day I nearly drowned I distinctly remember the color of the sky (charcoal), the smell in the air (wood smoke), and the sound of a dog barking (mine, a shepherd-collie mix named Ranja, running up and down the shoreline). It was Halloween, 1980. What had been a long, glorious summer had faded into [...]
If you’ve ever gone for a long run and then bonked on the road without cash or credit cards, you’ll appreciate the smarts behind the VITAband, a soft silicone emergency bracelet. There are heaps of emergency IDs available — you sign up, enter all your medical details, next of kin, etc., and then if paramedics [...]
A 64-year-old North Carolina man was hiking in the Utah desert, didn’t tell anyone where he was going, and then fell and severely injured his leg. In Blue John Canyon. Within a literal stone’s throw of where Aron Ralston was trapped by a boulder, cut off his arm, and staggered out to be rescued by rangers in a helicopter.
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